An Atlanta solar coalition is reporting strong and favorable response to its effort to provide low-cost solar panels for buildings of all types in the city. Solarize Atlanta is moving ahead amid significant shake-ups in the solar power marketplace.
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Invasive dove seen in Atlanta as Audubon counts 100-plus species
An invasive bird that is showing up in Atlanta traces its lineage to the Middle East. The Eurasian Collared-Dove made its way from the Bahamas to Florida in the 1970s and now is colonizing North America to the point that birds are spending the winter in Alaska, according to results of the annual Christmas Bird Count by the Atlanta Audubon Society.
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Federal disaster planning funds available to hurricane-ravaged firms along Ga. coast
Georgia manufacturers located along the coast can get a boost in their disaster planning from a federal grant being administered by an affiliate of Georgia Tech. The goal is to help employers recover more quickly and help get some 23,000 workers back to work and earning paychecks.
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Gateway park at PATH400 in North Buckhead to be expanded with donated land
A major gateway to PATH400 is to be expanded now that a benefactor has donated a half-acre of land at Mountain Way Park. The park is being developed alongside and beneath Ga. 400, on land that was earmarked as a park on a map that dates to 1938.
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Fatal bird/building collisions led by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Tennessee Warblers
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Tennessee Warblers were the two most common bird species to die after colliding with buildings during the Lights Out Atlanta program that wrapped up in November 2017, according to the Atlanta Audubon Society.
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Former House leader takes reins of environmental affairs firm he’s served since 2012
Another page of Georgia’s environmental history is turning at the state Capitol. Joe Tanner, a former commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, is turning the keys to his lobbying and consulting firm over to former House Majority Leader Jerry Keen – who has lobbied for the firm’s clients since 2012.
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Trump’s offshore drilling proposal eliminates 50-mile buffer between coastline, drill rigs
The continental waters off Georgia’s coast are to opened to drilling for oil and natural gas in leases to be signed in 2020, 2022, and 2024, under a draft proposal released Thursday by the Trump administration that would open most of the nation’s seabed to drilling. Environmental groups have announced their opposition to the plan.
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Final construction funding earmarked for PATH400; construction to begin in January
The last bit of money needed to complete PATH400 has been earmarked in city and federal funding, which is a significant win for Livable Buckhead, the non-profit entity overseeing development of the linear park.
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Report on ‘nuclear, climate injustices in U.S. South’ released as PSC weighs fate of Plant Vogtle
A new report names the South as the nuclear hub of the United States and calls for an end to all federal funding for Plant Vogtle, along with greater protections for women and the minority, typically low-income communities where nuclear facilities have been built.
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Effort begins to restore habitat of imperiled Canby’s dropwort plant, in SW Georgia
Federal and state efforts are underway to save a plant in southwest Georgia that’s so rare its global status is listed as, “imperiled – at high risk of extinction.”
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Climate change could end cheap credit for Georgia, local governments, Moody’s reports
Climate change could mark the end of low credit rates for Georgia’s state and local governments if their plans to recover from natural disasters are deemed inadequate by Wall Street analysts, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service.
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Atlanta teens connect with nature through National Public Lands Day
By Angelou C. Ezeilo, founder and CEO of the Atlanta-based Greening Youth Foundation
High school students from inner city neighborhoods all over Atlanta headed to Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, with sleeping bags and pillows in tow to experience a night out in nature at an urban camp out.
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New national water policy could emerge in 2018; depends on SCOTUS, Trump
A depleted fishery in Florida and parched farmland in New Mexico. The U.S. Supreme Court is to consider both scenarios in January as it prepares to issue rulings that could reshape the nation’s management of water resources.
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Trump’s water policy jeopardizes Georgia’s clean water, says Georgia Water Coalition
Environmental attorney Bill Sapp doesn’t mince words when he describes President Trump’s plan to roll back the clean water rule established during the Obama administration: “What the current administration is doing is jeopardizing clean water in this state.”
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Summer rains helped duck hunters as drought conditions return to Georgia
Georgia’s rainfall continues to swing sharply. Just as Georgia wildlife officials said rainfall this year created good hunting conditions for the duck season that opened Saturday, federal weather forecasters said drought conditions are looming.
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Atlanta may be among world’s first cities to use new financing tool for green infrastructure
Atlanta hopes to be included in the second round of cities in the world to pilot an innovative financial tool underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation. The money would help pay to install green infrastructure to improve the Westside’s polluted Proctor Creek watershed.
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Atlanta’s proposed rate hike for solid waste, recycling rejected by council committee
Atlanta residents won’t see a hike in their solid waste bills for the billing cycle that starts Jan. 1, 2018, following a vote Tuesday by committee of the Atlanta City Council. But a rate hike seems inevitable given the dire financial situation of the city’s trash collection and recycling programs.
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Atlanta Audubon promotes habitats for birds, people in its updated mission
The Atlanta Audubon’s plan to restore a bird-friendly habitat at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, in North Buckhead, is just the latest program by an organization that has ramped up its outreach significantly in recent years.
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Savannah dredging kills more fish, turtles than expected, triggering higher limits
The Savannah Harbor deepening project is killing a few more protected fish and turtles than expected. A new federal report says the higher death rates are acceptable, in part because this may mean more of these sea creatures are in the area than were expected.
The number of Atlantic sturgeon and green sea turtles killed, or captured alive, since dredging started in 2015 may appear to be statistically insignificant – numbering the single digits.
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Autumn foliage beginning to reach zenith, along with risk of car-deer strikes
As the fall foliage season begins in earnest in North Georgia and thousands of visitors travel there from metro Atlanta, state officials are urging motorists to be extra careful to avoid collisions with deer.
